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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

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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

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