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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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

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