Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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 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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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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