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What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.Simone De Beauvoir
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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.Simone De Beauvoir
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.Simone De Beauvoir
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The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over--this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success.Simone De Beauvoir
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.Simone De Beauvoir
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As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light–it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.Simone De Beauvoir
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It was an odd experience, this bringing to life of pages born of my pen and forgotten. From time to time they interested me -- they surprised me as much as if someone else had written them; yet I recognized the vocabulary, the shape of the sentences, the drive, the elliptical forms, the mannerisms. These pages were soaked through and through with my self -- there was a sickening intimacy about it, like the smell of a bedroom in which one has been shut up too long.Simone De Beauvoir