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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present

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