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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

Simone de Beauvoir

That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
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
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
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 tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

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