Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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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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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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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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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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