If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe 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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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