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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy 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
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics

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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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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