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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

Simone de Beauvoir

Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Philosophy World

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

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