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

Simone de Beauvoir

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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 whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself

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