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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
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
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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 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

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

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