To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt 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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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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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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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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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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