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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

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