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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

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
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself

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

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