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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
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The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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