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

Simone de Beauvoir

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
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 can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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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Life Literature Place Religion
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
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
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

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