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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Act Change Future Life Yourself

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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