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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Simone de Beauvoir

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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

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