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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

Simone de Beauvoir

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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
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
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success

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