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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

Simone de Beauvoir

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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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Father Invention
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
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man 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
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics

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