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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.

Simone de Beauvoir

Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See

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