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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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 body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
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

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