Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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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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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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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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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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