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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

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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

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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