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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

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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.
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Human Man Woman
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World

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