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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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 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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
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
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare

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