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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human 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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman

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