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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

Simone de Beauvoir

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
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
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman

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