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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

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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory 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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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 you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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

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

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