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

Simone de Beauvoir

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Myself Self Love
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present

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