He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLife is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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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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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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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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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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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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