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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
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
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness

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