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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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
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 whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman

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

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