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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

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
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
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
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
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
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing

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