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

Simone de Beauvoir

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Fly Herself Wings
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Love Perspective Understand
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Future Justice Present
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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 body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Philosophy World
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Arrogant Mad Man
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Myself Poet Taste Writing
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value

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