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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Simone de Beauvoir

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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 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
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
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

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