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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

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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
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
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
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
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
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
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
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

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