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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

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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

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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