I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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