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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness

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