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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy 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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
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 the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

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