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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Simone de Beauvoir

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
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

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