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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
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
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
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
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
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

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