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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.

Simone de Beauvoir

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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
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
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
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory 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
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
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman

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