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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Simone de Beauvoir

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself 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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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
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
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
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

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