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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
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
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 body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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

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