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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness

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