Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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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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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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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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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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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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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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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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