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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes: To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
         

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.


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All oppression creates a state of war.



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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.



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When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].



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