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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
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 day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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
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

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