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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
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
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

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