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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

Simone de Beauvoir

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
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
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
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
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection

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