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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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

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