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

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Creation Lost Love Youth
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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

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

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