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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

Simone de Beauvoir

But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win

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