Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRAll oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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