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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

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
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

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