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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

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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention

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