If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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