It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYou 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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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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