If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWeakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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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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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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