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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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 oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength

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