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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

Simone de Beauvoir

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
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
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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection

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