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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Simone de Beauvoir

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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself

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