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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
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 of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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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Body Philosophy World
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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

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