Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLife is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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