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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness

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

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