If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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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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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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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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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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