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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

Simone de Beauvoir

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness

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