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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Simone de Beauvoir

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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

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