To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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