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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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 feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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 tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
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

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