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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

A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story

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