When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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