One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRRepresentation 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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Life 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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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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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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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’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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