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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Simone de Beauvoir

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
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

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

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