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

Simone de Beauvoir

That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love 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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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing

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