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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

Simone de Beauvoir

That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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 oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

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