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

Simone de Beauvoir

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
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

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

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