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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

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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
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 catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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