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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure

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