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

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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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
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
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste

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

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