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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Simone de Beauvoir

Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Acceptance Man
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Break Up Love Myself Try
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Hard Time Live
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Character Yourself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Myself Scare
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Mistake Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Attitude Politics
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Enjoyment Myself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Ability Inspirational Worth
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Knowledge Oneself Story
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Change Fall Herself Touch
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Care Life Price Profit Young
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Break Magic Sex Woman

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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