One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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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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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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