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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Simone de Beauvoir

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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 wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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 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
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
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

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