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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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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!
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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