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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.

Simone de Beauvoir

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself

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