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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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 am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History

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