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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
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
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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 I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

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