I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYou 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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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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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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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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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