Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRFathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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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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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 said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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