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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

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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 whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
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
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
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 can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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