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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate 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
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love

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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