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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare

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