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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Simone de Beauvoir

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
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
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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