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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Simone de Beauvoir

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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
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
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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

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