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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

Simone de Beauvoir

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
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

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

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