I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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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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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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