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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Simone de Beauvoir

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
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
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman

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