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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man 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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
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
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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

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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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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