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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
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
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

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