If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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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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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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