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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman

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