It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRAll oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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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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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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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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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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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