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All success cloaks a surrender.

Simone de Beauvoir

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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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Independent Intelligence Love 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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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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Acceptance Man
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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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Easy People
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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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Body Philosophy World
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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

All success cloaks a surrender.

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