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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

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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

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