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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time 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
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
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Act Change Future Life Yourself
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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