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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

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection

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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