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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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
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
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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

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