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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYou said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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 so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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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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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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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.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Representation 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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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