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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory 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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War

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