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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love

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