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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

You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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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Beginning Himself Man Sex
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing

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