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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
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
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
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
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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 love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try

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