All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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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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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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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