Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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