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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

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