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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

Simone de Beauvoir

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
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
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

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