One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhat would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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 is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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