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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

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
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 could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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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