Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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