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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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 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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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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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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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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