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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Simone de Beauvoir

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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
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
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 was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

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