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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Simone de Beauvoir

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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
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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy

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