Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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