Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRShe was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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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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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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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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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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