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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

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
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
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
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
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
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value

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

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