What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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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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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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