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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

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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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

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