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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.

Simone de Beauvoir

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life 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
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
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.

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