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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
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

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