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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

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value

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