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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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 catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings

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