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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory 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.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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

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