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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

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