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

Simone de Beauvoir

Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Effort Separate Togetherness
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Act Change Future Life Yourself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Children Value Woman
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Hard Time Live
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Freedom Spring Value
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Philosophy World
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Earth Myself
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself

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