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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

Simone de Beauvoir

A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
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 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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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

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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