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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

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