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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.

Simone de Beauvoir

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
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
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman

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