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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking

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