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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself

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