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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake 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
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

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