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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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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Break Magic Sex Woman
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
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
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success

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