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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
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
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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Life Literature Place Religion
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
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
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy

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