Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCapabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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 could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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