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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
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
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

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