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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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 feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection

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

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