She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCapabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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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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