Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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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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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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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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