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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Simone de Beauvoir

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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
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
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
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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