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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

Simone de Beauvoir

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
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
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
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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
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
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
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present

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