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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

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 would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Father Invention

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