That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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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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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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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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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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