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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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

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