There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHer wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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