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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

I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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 realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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

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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