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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

Simone de Beauvoir

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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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 a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love

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