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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Simone de Beauvoir

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Naked True Yourself
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Freedom Spring Value
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Fantasy Perspective
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Generosity Myself True

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