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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.

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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
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

Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself

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