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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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 success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness

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