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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
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
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
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
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 am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself

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