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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy

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