That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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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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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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