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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live

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