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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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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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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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