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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy

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