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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
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
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
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
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
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective

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