Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhat would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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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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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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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 tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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