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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time

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