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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRRepresentation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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 feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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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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