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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Simone de Beauvoir

All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself

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