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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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 no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
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

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