I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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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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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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