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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

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