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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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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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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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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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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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