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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

Simone de Beauvoir

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Herself Love Space Time
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Naked True Yourself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Oneself Value
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Greatness Himself Man Woman
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Myself Poet Taste Writing
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.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Heaven Life Yourself
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Mystery Philosophy
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Future Justice Present
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Character Yourself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Break Magic Sex Woman

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