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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

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man 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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