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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.

Simone de Beauvoir

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History

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