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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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 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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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 catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman

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