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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
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
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

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