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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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 could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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