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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

Simone de Beauvoir

The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
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 love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

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