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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics

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