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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man

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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