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

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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy

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

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