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

Simone de Beauvoir

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
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.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Character Game Human Life Teaching Win

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