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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

Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
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
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge

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