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

Simone de Beauvoir

You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try

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