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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

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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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 body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live

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