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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 realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
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
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
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
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
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
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy

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