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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand

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