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

Simone de Beauvoir

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
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
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare

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