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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

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

Break Up Love Myself Try
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human 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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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

Existence Feeling Freedom
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

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