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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
To 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 Yourself Experience Oneself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

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