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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.

Simone de Beauvoir

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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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Greatness Himself Man Woman
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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.
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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.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story

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