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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself 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

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

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