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

Simone de Beauvoir

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman

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