Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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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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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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