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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.

Simone de Beauvoir

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 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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself 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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself

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