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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

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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See

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