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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir

Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
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
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

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