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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
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
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
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection

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