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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!

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
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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Care Life Price Profit Young
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy

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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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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