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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Simone de Beauvoir

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See 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
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love

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