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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human 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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Creation Lost Love Youth
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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 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
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go 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

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