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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
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
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
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 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
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
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

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

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