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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

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