Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne 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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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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 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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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