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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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

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