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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

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
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
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
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
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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Easy People
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

History Let Go Myself
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Creation Easy Thinking World

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

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