The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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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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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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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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