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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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

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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