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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Simone de Beauvoir

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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 is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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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Acceptance Man
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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

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