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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion

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