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

Simone de Beauvoir

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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
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
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave

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