If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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