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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
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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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time

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