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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.

Simone de Beauvoir

Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself 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
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
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
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection

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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