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

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young

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

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