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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.

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