It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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