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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment 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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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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

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