Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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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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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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 enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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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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