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

Simone de Beauvoir

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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
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
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 wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself

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