Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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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 realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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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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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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