Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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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 can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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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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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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