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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

Simone de Beauvoir

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner

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