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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

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love 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
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
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 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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner

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