She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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