Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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