Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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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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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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