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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.

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
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win

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