Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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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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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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