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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Simone de Beauvoir

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
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
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage

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