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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 can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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

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