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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.

Simone de Beauvoir

A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman

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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