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

Simone de Beauvoir

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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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Creation Easy Thinking World
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness

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