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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

Simone de Beauvoir

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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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