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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

Simone de Beauvoir

Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
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
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

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