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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.

Simone de Beauvoir

You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
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.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman

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