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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

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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
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
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong

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