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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Simone de Beauvoir

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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 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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth

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