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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

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
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself

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