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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

Simone de Beauvoir

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself

Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

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