To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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