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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

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
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself

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