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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

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman

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

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

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