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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

Simone de Beauvoir

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
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
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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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