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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
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
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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