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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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

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