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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Simone de Beauvoir

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself

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