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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

Simone de Beauvoir

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Different Himself Lie People Reflection
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Character Yourself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Father Invention
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Place Waste
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Literature Place Religion
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Attitude Politics
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Children Value Woman
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Mistake Myself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Beyond Herself Life See
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Act Change Future Life Yourself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Independent Intelligence Love Myself
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

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