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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Simone de Beauvoir

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch

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