The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhat would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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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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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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