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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

Simone de Beauvoir

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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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Life Literature Place Religion
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
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
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy

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