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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

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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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 wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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