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

Simone de Beauvoir

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
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

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