I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRPeople seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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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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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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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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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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