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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy

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