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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.

Simone de Beauvoir

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
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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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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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Body Philosophy World
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman

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