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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

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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love 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

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