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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.

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
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
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
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
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

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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