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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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