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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

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
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
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
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

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

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