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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

Simone de Beauvoir

You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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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Creation Easy Thinking World
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself

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