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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman

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