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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Simone de Beauvoir

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
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
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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

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