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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

Simone de Beauvoir

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 am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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 is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

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