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Simone de Beauvoir

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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

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