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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

Simone de Beauvoir

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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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Life Literature Place Religion
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner

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