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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

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