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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.

Simone de Beauvoir

If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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