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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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 oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

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