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

Simone de Beauvoir

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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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Creation Easy Thinking World
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man

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