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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

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
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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Easy People
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
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner

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