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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

Simone de Beauvoir

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

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