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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

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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 success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
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

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