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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

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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
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 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
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
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself

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