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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

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