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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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 could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
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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Care Life Price Profit Young
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
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
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself

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