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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

Simone de Beauvoir

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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
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
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
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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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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
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 is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy

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