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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

Simone de Beauvoir

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy

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