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

Simone de Beauvoir

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself 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
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World

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