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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time

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