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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

Simone de Beauvoir

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Literature Place Religion
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself

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