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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.

Simone de Beauvoir

All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try

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