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All success cloaks a surrender.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman

All success cloaks a surrender.

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