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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.

Simone de Beauvoir

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
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
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.

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