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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
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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