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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Simone de Beauvoir

All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live

That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

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