I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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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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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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