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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
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
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
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

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