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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
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
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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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Creation Lost Love Youth
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste

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