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

Simone de Beauvoir

One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing

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