What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne 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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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