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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself 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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself

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