When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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