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

Simone de Beauvoir

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
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
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
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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

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

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