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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
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
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

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