She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYouth 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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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