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Action Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
- We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
- Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world…
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