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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself

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