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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

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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love 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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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 tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman

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