To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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