What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe 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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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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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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