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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love 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
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself

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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