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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Simone de Beauvoir

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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 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 so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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

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