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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
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
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

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