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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

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Generosity Myself True
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery 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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Care Life Price Profit Young
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Herself Woman

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

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