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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.

Simone de Beauvoir

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave

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