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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

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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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 realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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

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