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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.

Simone de Beauvoir

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.

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