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

Simone de Beauvoir

If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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 body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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 the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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

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