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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

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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
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
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World

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