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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman

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