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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

Simone de Beauvoir

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
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
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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

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