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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.

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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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
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
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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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Greatness Himself Man Woman
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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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Easy People
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave

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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