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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

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
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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

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