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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

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
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
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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

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