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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

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