It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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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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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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