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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.

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
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love

Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.

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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.

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