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

Simone de Beauvoir

That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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 body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History

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