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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

Simone de Beauvoir

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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 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
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War

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