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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
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 so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
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
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman

Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

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