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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Creation Easy Thinking World
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Fathers 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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Father Invention
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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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
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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Easy People
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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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Existence Feeling Freedom
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History

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