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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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 tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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 lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
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
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

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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