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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

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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
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
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking

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