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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

Simone de Beauvoir

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
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
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
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
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

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

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