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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

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
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
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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Man Truth View World
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story

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