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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.

Simone de Beauvoir

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Enjoyment Myself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
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
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
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
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
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.

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