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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.

Simone de Beauvoir

All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

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