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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

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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
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
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
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection

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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