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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.

Simone de Beauvoir

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value

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