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 BEAUVOIRMan 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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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