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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

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman

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