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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.

Simone de Beauvoir

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
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 catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Herself Woman

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