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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

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
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
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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

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

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