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

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
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
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
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
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
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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

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

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