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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

Simone de Beauvoir

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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

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