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

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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
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See 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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See

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