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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

Simone de Beauvoir

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

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