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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
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
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try

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