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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

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
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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

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