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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

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Break Up Love Myself Try
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
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
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Attitude Politics

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