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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

Simone de Beauvoir

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
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

If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

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