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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 be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
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
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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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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 was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice

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