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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

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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 of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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 am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value

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