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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.

Simone de Beauvoir

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy

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