If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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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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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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