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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 9
Died: 1986
Died: April 14
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Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
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If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.
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If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
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The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.
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A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
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