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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

You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
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
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
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
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
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
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Herself Woman
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Oneself Woman

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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