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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

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