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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

Simone de Beauvoir

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy 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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love

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