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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

Simone de Beauvoir

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
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
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
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
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
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

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