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• Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

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  Inspirational, Society, Care

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• The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

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  Retirement, Roles, Retired

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• No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

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  Existential, Existence, Fulfilled

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

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  Turns

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• The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

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  Sex, Women, Mean

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.

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  Men, Doe, Addresses

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.134, Open Road Media

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• 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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  Mean, Winning, Men

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

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  Quality, Oppression, Feminine

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• Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.

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  Book, Past, Doubt

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of Circumstance: Hard times”

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• Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.

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  Writing, Feels

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• When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

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  Feminism, Doe, Inferiority

  "Nature of the second sex".

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• In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.

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  Country, Progress, Saws

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• It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

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  Contentment, Complacency, Steps

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• To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

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  Women, Defects, Ifs

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

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  Secret, Unconscious, Persons

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• The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

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  World, Return, No Hope

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• To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

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  Moral

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• The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

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  Boxes, Ballots, Mechanism

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• People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

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  Thinking, People, Balls

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• The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.

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  Spring, Heart, Movement

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.

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  Blow, Flying, Would Be

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• I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.

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  Trying, Madness, Shows

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

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  Country, Literature, Understood

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”

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• Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.

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  Men, Virginia, Creating

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• The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.

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  Men, Facts, Assuming

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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