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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Simone de Beauvoir

Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human 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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman

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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