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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

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man

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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