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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life 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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love 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
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
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings

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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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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