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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth

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