I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRPeople seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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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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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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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