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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
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
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
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
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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

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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