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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge

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