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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength

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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
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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 attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman

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