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Given Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an…
- It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it…
- Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it;…
- The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever…
- Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me
- A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others…
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