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

Simone de Beauvoir

If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
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
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage

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