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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

Simone de Beauvoir

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
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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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake 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
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
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
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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

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