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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.

Simone de Beauvoir

You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy 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 no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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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