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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir

One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy

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