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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

Simone de Beauvoir

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
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
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
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
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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

Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

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