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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Simone de Beauvoir

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
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 was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
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
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 easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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