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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.

Simone de Beauvoir

Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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 so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence

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