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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man 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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion

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