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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.

Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Myself Scare
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Act Change Future Life Yourself

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.

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