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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

Simone de Beauvoir

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
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
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
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 you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage

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