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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Simone de Beauvoir

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
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

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

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