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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
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
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
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
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
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy

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