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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

Simone de Beauvoir

Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value 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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
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
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing

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