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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

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
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
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
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking

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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