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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

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
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love 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
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound

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