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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself

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

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