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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

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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 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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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 could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing

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

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