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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

Simone de Beauvoir

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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
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
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
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
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True

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