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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.

Simone de Beauvoir

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness

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