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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

Simone de Beauvoir

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Myself Self Love
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

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