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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

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection

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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