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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

But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
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
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live

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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