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

Simone de Beauvoir

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
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
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself

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