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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself

Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.

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