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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
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
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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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

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