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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

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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
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
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
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love

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