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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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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Beginning Himself Man Sex
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man 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
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven 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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Death Life Live
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success

Weakness’ 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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