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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
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
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection

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