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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

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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man 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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics

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