It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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