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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War

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