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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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

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