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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Simone de Beauvoir

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 wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

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