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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
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
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story

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

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