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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

Simone de Beauvoir

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Mystery Philosophy
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Freedom Spring Value
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Freedom Moral Winner
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Care Life Price Profit Young

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