All success cloaks a surrender.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI 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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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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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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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