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

Simone de Beauvoir

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Break Up Love Myself Try
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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 war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War

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