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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.

Simone de Beauvoir

Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
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
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
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself

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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