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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
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
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
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
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
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
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 tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
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
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice

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