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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir

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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Generosity Myself True
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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Death Life Live
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Fly Herself Wings
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Demand Sacrifice War

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

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