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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.

Simone de Beauvoir

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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
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
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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
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
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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