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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
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
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave

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