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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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

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