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

Simone de Beauvoir

Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
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
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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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