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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Simone de Beauvoir

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
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
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
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch

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