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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Simone de Beauvoir

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 was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
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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