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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

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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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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 wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
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

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