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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
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
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
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself

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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