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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
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
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth

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