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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

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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value

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

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