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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWeakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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