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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Simone de Beauvoir

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
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
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 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
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
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

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