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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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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Easy People
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
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
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value

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