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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

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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
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
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
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
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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Easy People

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

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