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

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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

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

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