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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
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
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings

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