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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy 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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story

One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

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