All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRChange your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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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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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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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 may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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