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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

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
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
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
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
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself

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