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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.

Simone de Beauvoir

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story

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