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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate 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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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 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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness

One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

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