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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Freedom Love Philosophy
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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

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