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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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself

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

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