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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.

Simone de Beauvoir

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
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
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
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go 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 word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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

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