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

Simone de Beauvoir

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
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 am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason

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