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

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
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
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try

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