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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

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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

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