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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

Simone de Beauvoir

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
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
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

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