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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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

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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