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

Simone de Beauvoir

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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

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