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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

Simone de Beauvoir

Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Be Yourself Experience Oneself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try

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