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

Simone de Beauvoir

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
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
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
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
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

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