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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.

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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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

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