I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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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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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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