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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love 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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave

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