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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

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
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention

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

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