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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
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

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