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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
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
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing

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