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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics

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