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Simone de Beauvoir

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste

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