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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

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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 enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice

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

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