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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.

Simone de Beauvoir

One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World

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