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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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 catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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
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

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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