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

Simone de Beauvoir

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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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