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

Simone de Beauvoir

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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

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