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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

Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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

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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