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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Simone de Beauvoir

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
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
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
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

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