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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human 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
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try

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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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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