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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself

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