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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

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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
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
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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

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