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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War

One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

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