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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 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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage

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