To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLiterature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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