I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRPeople seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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