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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

Simone de Beauvoir

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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 is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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
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

Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

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