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Simone de Beauvoir

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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy

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