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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

Simone de Beauvoir

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
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

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