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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.

Simone de Beauvoir

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman

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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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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