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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.

Simone de Beauvoir

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
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
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 lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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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Creation Easy Thinking World
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection

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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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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