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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

Simone de Beauvoir

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
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
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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 was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
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
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

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