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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.

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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy 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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy

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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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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