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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

Simone de Beauvoir

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

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