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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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Freedom Human 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
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Easy People
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Confidence Lose Oneself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

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