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

Simone de Beauvoir

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman

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