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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
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 oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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

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