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

Simone de Beauvoir

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself

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

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