It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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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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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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