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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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
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
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
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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

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