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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.

Simone de Beauvoir

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
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
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
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
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
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

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