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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
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

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