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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Literature Place Religion

Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

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