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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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

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