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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.

Simone de Beauvoir

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
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’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love

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