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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.

Simone de Beauvoir

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
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
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment

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