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

Simone de Beauvoir

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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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 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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself

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