She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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