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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
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
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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
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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Existence Feeling Freedom
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake 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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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

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