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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

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