Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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