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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
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
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
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
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

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