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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

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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 word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success

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