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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.

Simone de Beauvoir

You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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
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
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman

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