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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
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
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
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
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
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
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
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
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 would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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
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
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story

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