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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Simone de Beauvoir

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love 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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Acceptance Man
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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

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