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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Simone de Beauvoir

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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

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