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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.

Simone de Beauvoir

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy

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