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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

Simone de Beauvoir

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
One 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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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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
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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Life Literature Place Religion
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself

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