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

Simone de Beauvoir

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Fly Herself Wings
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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
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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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Beginning Himself Man Sex
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Character Yourself
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Break Magic Sex Woman

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

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