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

Simone de Beauvoir

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man

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

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