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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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 you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself

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