Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCapabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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