The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRChange your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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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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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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