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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.

Simone de Beauvoir

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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

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