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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Simone de Beauvoir

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
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
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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

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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