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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Attitude Politics
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life 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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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
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

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