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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Simone de Beauvoir

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
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
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 enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge

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