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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.

Simone de Beauvoir

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.

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