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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
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’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself

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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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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