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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

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