Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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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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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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