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

Simone de Beauvoir

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Character Yourself
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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

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

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