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All success cloaks a surrender.

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
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy

All success cloaks a surrender.

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