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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

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself

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