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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

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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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

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