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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

Simone de Beauvoir

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness

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