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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare

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